DOZE

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Traducere în limba română

doze I. verb intranzitiv

1. a moţăi, a picoti, a dormita.

2. (şi doze of) a aţipi.

3. (fig.) a visa cu ochii deschişi.

doze II. substantiv

1. moţăială, aţipeală, pui de somn;

to fall into a doze a aţipi, a adormi;

to take a doze a trage un pui de somn.

2. veştejire (a fibrelor).

3. (amer. sl.) boală venerică.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I spent all yesterday trying to read, or lying down dozing.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Joe had evidently stolen away after he had dozed off.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

As he dozed off he was aroused by his comrade's voice.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

It has seemed to me more than once when I have been in a doze, that my dear husband, who died fifteen years since, has come in and sat down beside me; and that I have even heard him call me by my name, Alice, as he used to do.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Meg rather approved of the new arrangement at first, and found it a relief to know that John was having a good time instead of dozing in the parlor, or tramping about the house and waking the children.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I tried to keep awake, and succeeded for a while; but when the clock struck twelve it waked me from a doze, so I must have been falling asleep.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

He started to get up, then looked back to his mate again, and settled down and dozed.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

He did not doze.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Towards dusk she fell into a doze.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

When he dozed despite himself, the whimpering and snarling of the dogs aroused him.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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